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Not sure where to post this about Family Finder results. I have a 1st to 2nd cousin dna match sharing 645 centimorgans (cm) and 33 longest blocks. We confirmed that he is on my maternal side. My mother has a brother and they are the only known children of my maternal grandfather. My uncle has a...

I did a DNA test for my father-in-law who is from a village near Smolyan in the Rhodope mountains in Bulgaria. The ethnicity results came back that he is 9% of Jewish origin (7% sephardi and 2% ashkenazi, to be precise). This is very surprising not just because there is no family...

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I am beginning to think so. My surname Gatty and variant spellings-Gattey and Gattie is relatively rare. Only one other Gatty seems to have tested. We are a GD of 2 at 37 markers. Overtures for him to upgrade to 67 have fallen on deaf ears and our paper trails as far as we have traced our lines back(1810...

I'm looking to find out what “family-tree-dna My Origins” ethnic percentages in total constitute peoples of ANY ancestry for comparison. (Although Greeks, Turks, Cypriots, Italians, Lebanese, Syrians, Iraqis, Palestinians would be preferred in this case).

How do I contact someone in the database with same surname as myself? They do not show up as matches which I suppose proves we do not have a common male ancestor which is important and surprising to me.

I uploaded a FTDNA raw to MyHeritage in September last year, no problem. Two new kits failed last week due to, I presume, changes in the formatting of the raw files at FT. Is there any indicator of a timeframe for a fix for this issue by either testing service?...

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